Linnormegget
| Linnormegget | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Payer group in Hoelfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 14 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Linnormegget (Norwegian for Lindwurmei ) is a rocky hill in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Payer group of Hoelfjella it rises 5 km south of the Linnormen group of hills .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the German Antarctic Expedition in 1938/39 under the direction of polar explorer Alfred Ritscher . Norwegian cartographers, who also named the hill, mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960).
Web links
- Linnormegget Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Linnormegget Hill on geographic.org (English)